PLEASE WRITE A POSTCARD

Hello again and welcome back to the Daily Vitamin.

Over the last couple of days, we have been analysing how to write a postcard in English. Yesterday we looked at the use of present and past tenses. Today we are going to focus on the future forms, and we will also look at some examples of descriptive adjectives.

Once again, we will take our examples from the postcard in Monday's lesson.

THE 'GOING TO' FUTURE
When we refer to the future, we are usually talking about specific plans that we have. For this reason, we use the present continuous or the going to future form 

⇒ is/are GOING TO VERB.

Both the present continuous and the 'going to' future form is used to talk about future plans. Contrast the two sentences in the examples below. Both are correct and both refer to tomorrow's plan.

Examples:
Tomorrow we are going to visit the town together.
Tomorrow we are visiting the town together.

ADJECTIVES
Postcards are descriptive. For this reason, we usually include lots of descriptive adjectives.

Here are some adjectives with a positive meaning: wonderful, fantastic, beautiful, amazing, gorgeous, terrific.
Here are some adjectives with a negative meaning: awful, terrible, boring, unpleasant, disgusting.

Examples:
The weather is fantastic.
The food was awful.

Now you have all the information that you need to write a postcard in English. If you are going out of town (or not), why not send someone a postcard in English? Or you can send one to us. We would love to hear about your holidays. Remember, our address is below:

Ziggurat Language Services
Calle Nicaragua 48, 1-6 
08029 Barcelona (Spain)

Or you can write your own short postcard on one of our social media sites (Facebook or Bluesky); we will give you feedback about your writing ASAP.

Enjoy the rest of your day!